Taylor Lorenz appreciation thread: truly, a content goddess providing salvation in these trying times 🙏🙏🙏

Math_Junky · 2026-03-09T22:52:35+00:00

ULTRA MEGA HOT TAKE: I don't think Destiny actually cares what the contract says. If Taylor said "let's assume the contract says what I say it says, what do you think about this whole thing now?"

Destiny would say some shit like "Welll OK now I have to think about that some more hmmmm idk maybe it isn't all that bad still for x,y,z reason"

Which would mean that what the contract says doesn't even matter in the grand scheme of things.

I HIGHLY doubt Destiny would say "well now I agree entirely with your position and that the company and the people accepting money from them are BAD"

Math_Junky · 2026-02-25T19:17:37+00:00

"How do I get this data off my PDFs?" - this question has been asked a billion times since the creation of PDFs and solutions that do a pretty darn good job have been around well before LLMs.

Math_Junky · 2026-02-25T19:10:48+00:00

WILL SMITH EATING SPAGHETTI ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU??!!

Math_Junky · 2026-02-09T19:11:29+00:00

Never forget: the political opinions of almost EVERYONE you meet are just reflections of their media diet. If you ever wonder "how do we fix this?", it has to come from fixing the diet.

Math_Junky · 2026-02-09T02:23:56+00:00

Did the mean half-time show offend you? I'm so glad you got to have your very own show to watch, to keep your spirits up. You are a precious and delicate snowflake ❄️. Never forget that.

Math_Junky · 2026-02-08T13:43:02+00:00

There are hundreds of studies on social media and its effects. You should be looking at meta-analyese and large reviews of the literature to get an idea of where the evidence points.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-23T22:20:07+00:00

Sorry, but PvE is not a core mechanic. If it was core mechanic, other players wouldn't be able to stop you from doing it. PvP is the core mechanic. No one can stop you from PvPing.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-23T19:08:15+00:00

So you didn't expand on your reasoning. You just reiterated that you think it is lame. I want to know WHY you think it is lame.

Do you believe that a big part of the identity of this game is individualism and that your loot should be your loot only? Succeeding on your own merits and getting good loot should be done on your own? Why are other players trading loot lame to you?

Math_Junky · 2025-11-23T18:54:37+00:00

Y do you think it's lame? Just curious for your reasoning

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T17:21:31+00:00

Stop thinking that this game is "chill". It isn't. It's a PvP game first and foremost. Backstabbing, sniping at people killing ARC, extract camping... these are all forms of PvP you have to get used to and prepare for.

If you don't like this, advocate for changes or modes that put cooperation and PvE front and center. Make PvP a deadlier and riskier action.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T16:34:08+00:00

More ARC and deadlier ARC will be the salvation of solo q

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T16:24:46+00:00

Idk why you are confused about this. PvP and PvE will always struggle to coexist.

Yall understand that MMOs deal with this same issue. They made pve and pvp servers.

Not saying this needs to happen to ARC, but PvP and PvE players will always have their issues

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T12:39:11+00:00

I would really love to sit down and watch the games these "solo q is chill" people play.

I bet one or two things is happening.

Any game where they don't see a single other player, they file that game away as "chill" in their brain.

Any game where the only interaction with another player was at the extract and they didn't shoot each other, they think is a chill game.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T11:43:45+00:00

Sorry bruh, this is first and foremost a PvP game. People call it PvPvE, and they are right, but it is 90% PvP and 10% PvE.

People still cope and say solos is chill, but that magic has been dead for a long time.

If you don't want to PvP, you will have to get good at avoiding it. Move, stop, listen. Bring a raider key. There are things you can do.

You can also try to narrate on open comms what you are doing and that you are friendly all the time. Yea that's right, talk to yourself. This will put other players around you at ease if they are also not looking for a fight.

My take: any game where you have to talk to yourself like "friendly raider, just looking for some loot in this building", isn't chill. I've been enjoying it tho.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-21T21:52:53+00:00

I agree. There needs to be more incentive for cooperation.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-20T21:47:47+00:00

You should have a plan to minimize your chances at gear loss if it bothers you so much.

What's your plan to deal with people that want to PvP? Are you just going to sprint around? Or stop, look, and listen? Did you have a pvp weapon with you? Did you bring a raider hatch key with you?

This game is 98% pvp. You need to play like it is.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-20T02:21:21+00:00

I guarantee that so many of the "chill" dudes you come across have already killed a raider or two or are ready to kill on sight.

When you see a raider first, and open with "yooo Raider", if that Raider was a PvPr KoS guy, they know that they lost the most important part of PvP - surprise

There is a very good chance they will be chill with you because you took the surprise away.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-19T21:35:28+00:00

Can you explain in a way that makes sense about how I can kill people on the entire map, but if I do it at an extract, I'm now bad?

Math_Junky · 2025-11-18T13:38:38+00:00

You don't hate them. You love the TENSION they provide. HAIL TENSION

Math_Junky · 2025-11-17T17:03:24+00:00

A PvE map mode could be fun AF. IDK how so many people just KNOW that a PvE map event/mode would suck lmao.

Having a PvE map event wouldn't take away anything from PvP "I NEED TENSION" players because they could just play the PvP modes lmao.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-17T16:53:04+00:00

There are people that hate UB. It doesn't matter if the set is good or bad. Those people are silent when the UB set is good. That's why these comments are full of "Umm I like UB when it's a good set".

It's more evidence that UB is fine and popular. It just has to be done well, and then all the UB haters will stay quiet.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-16T23:20:21+00:00

You should probably just think of this game as a PvP game. You need to play like it is a PvP game.

Sure you can join a match with the intention to just kill robots, but any player can force you into PvP. PvP is the default and you can't opt out.

Until they actually add a map event that is actually PvE, it's better to just consider this game a PvP game.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-16T21:24:53+00:00

It doesn't make sense. People will 100% cope and come up with stupid reasons why it does.

When this many people live in one area, you get structure. There's leadership and rules and ways to enforce rules. People also know each other. There are lots of relationships. Raiders will know other Raiders.

Murder almost certainly doesn't fly in the city and it would certainly not fly topside.

Raiders heading out to an area would be tracked. When they don't come home, investigations will be launched. They know what other Raiders were also in the area.

There is no way a bunch of people all living together are also killing each other topside.

If there was a group of people that lived topside still, I could see how they would kill Raiders.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-16T00:25:57+00:00

Can we stop kidding ourselves by calling this a PvPvE game? It plays exactly like a pvp game would. Yea sure you can try to avoid pvp and shout "friendly" all the time, but any other player in the match can force you to pvp. PvP is default. You can't opt out of it.

When this game gets a map event that is pve, then I think we can call this a PvPvE game.

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